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What were the criticisms against the introduction of "vector analysis"?

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Who first discovered and produced an alternating current?

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Who coined the term "iff" for "if and only if"?

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Where in Gauss's works does he derive "Gauss's Law"?

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Heisenberg's last work on a non-linear generalization of quantum mechanics?

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Who coined the term "immune system"?

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What did Einstein learn in his university electricity and magnetism courses?

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Did Cauchy ever deal with double or triple integrals?

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Who are "analysts" and "synthesists" in mathematics?

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Who invented/discovered the scalar potential?

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48 Questions

Did Gauss find the formula for $1+2+3+\ldots+(n-2)+(n-1)+n$ in elementary school?

Why didn't Einstein's Nobel Prize mention relativity theory?

Where did Galileo say "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered. The point is to discover them."?

How exactly did Hertz's experiments confirm Maxwell's theory?

What did Einstein contribute to Special Relativity that hadn't already been done by Lorentz in 1904 and Poincaré in 1905?

"Cycles" to "Hertz": Why the shift circa 1970?

What is the most ancient civilization that used base-16 (hexadecimal) number system?

Who first discovered or invented the concept of "muscle memory"?

What is the last physics paper or book written in Latin?

Why did the ancients believe celestial matter was of a different type than terrestrial matter?

What are epicycles, deferents, eccentrics, equants, etc.?

Why is Maxwell and not Ampère credited for unifying electricity and magnetism?

Why is one of Maxwell's equations named after Ampère? Who first named it after Ampère?

What were the criticisms against the introduction of "vector analysis"?

Who first discovered and produced an alternating current?

Who coined the term "iff" for "if and only if"?

Where in Gauss's works does he derive "Gauss's Law"?

Heisenberg's last work on a non-linear generalization of quantum mechanics?

Who coined the term "immune system"?

Why was Principia Proposition 43, Theorem 22 not published?

What did Einstein learn in his university electricity and magnetism courses?

Who first solved the two-body problem in 3D?

Did Cauchy ever deal with double or triple integrals?

Who are "analysts" and "synthesists" in mathematics?

What did the Greeks call the “trial and error” reasoning process?

Who invented/discovered the scalar potential?

What was taught in 19th century European electricity and/or magnetism courses?

How was the resemblance between apes and humans explained in pre-Darwinian biology?

Einstein praising Sophus Lie

Who discovered the Virial Theorem?